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We begin our coverage of the 30th anniversary conference of the Schiller Institute
with speeches from the first panel, titled, “The New Silk Road Is Transforming the
Planet,” featuring a keynote address by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, in which she laid out
in stark terms, the triple threat that faces mankind today: the spreading Ebola epidemic;
the expanding incursions of the barbaric ISIS terrorism in Southwest Asia, and beyond;
and the disintegration of the global financial system.

Zepp-LaRouche’s keynote speech. “We are in a crisis moment of unprecedented dimensions,”
she said. “Humanity right now is on the edge of a genocide which could become worse
than anything that ever happened in history.” But, the crises are man-made, and can
therefore be remedied—if we can find the political will to do so.

National

Dr. Debra Freeman, national spokeswoman for Lyndon LaRouche, issued this statement
on Oct. 24, which is being circulated in a mass leaflet form by the LaRouche Political
Action Committee. It reports on a three-phase program for control of epidemic disease,
outlined by Dr. Michael Osterholm, one of the world’s leading experts on public health
and biosecurity.

Economics

“There is an unmistakable indicator that provides information about whether a government
is making good policy or not,” writes Helga Zepp-LaRouche. “If the majority of the
population is happy and optimistic about the future, the government would appear to
be fulfilling its mission to serve the common good. Should the vast majority of people,
however, be pessimistic about the possibility of change and a better future, then
this government is obviously pursuing a bad policy.” Contrast, then, the governments
of China and India vs. those of Europe.

After investing more than a decade in constructing dams, canals, tunnels, and the
world’s most modern aqueduct, and just as long in intensive measures to improve and
protect water quality in the upper Yangtze River system, China has completed the Central
Route of its huge South-North Water Transfer Project.

International

Russian President Vladimir Putin used the occasion of the annual Valdai Club dialogue
in Sochi, Russia, Oct. 24 to deliver a sweeping assessment of the present danger of
global war, and the efforts that Russia is taking to avert that outcome.